Clothes-hanger



C. FAStL AND W. W. GARLAND.

CLOTHES HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 15, 1918.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I CHARLES FASEL AND WILLIAM W. GARLAND, 0F BUTTE, MONTANA.

CLOTHES-HANGER.

To all whom it may concern:

lie it known that we, CHARLES FASEL and WILLIAM W. GARLAND, citizens of the United States, residing at Butte, in the county of Silver-bow and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Hangers, of which the following is a'specification.

This invention pertains to an improved garment hanger and has for its main object the production of a structure which is simple in construction and effective in operation; there being relatively few parts employed and the clamping elements being so arranged that they will exert the necessary pressure upon the garment placed therebetween while being automatically held open when brought Fill 'with a suspending hook 2.

to that position.

The invention is shown in conjunction with a combined coat support and a hanger of the clamping type adapted to support a pair of trousers, or a skirt, as the case may be, though the hanger proper may be employed independently of the coat support or The invention is illustrated in the annexed drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a* perspective view of the support and hanger, the jaws of the latter being shown in their locked open position;

Fig. 2 a transverse vertical sectional view, the parts being in the same position;

Fig. 3 a like view with the jaws closed; and 1 Fig. 41 a detail view illustrative of a slight modification.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, 1 denotes the usual coat supportin bar provided ecured to the under portion or face of said bar '1 is a bail 3, the ends of which are driven into openings formed in bar 1, saidbail forming the support; for the clamping hanger. The clamping jaws are designated by 4: and 5 and will, preferably, be formed with cut out finger holds or recesses 6 to permit of the jaws being readily opened or separated, said recesses being disposed at .midlength of the jaws in order that the force employed to open the same may be applied at such point and thus prevent undue strain being placed on the jaws as would obtain if one sought to separate the parts by taking hold of the ends and drawing them apart. Jaw 4: is attached to the lower ends of two arms 7 and 8, said arms each extending upwardly Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 15, 1918.

to the cross bar or horizontally disposed element of the bail 3 where they are fashioned into coil springs 9 which encircle the lower element of the bail, the wire being then extended downwardly forming relatively short arms 10 which are connected by a cross bar 11. Each of the arms 7 and 8 is provided with an ofiset or shoulder 12. Clamping jaw may thus be said to be supended from a swlngmg frame (arms 7 and 8) having at 1ts upper end a spring connection with a fulcrum frame (arms 10, 19 and 11) which frames are urged toward each other by the sprin connection 9, 9. It is to be noted that t ese frames and springs are produced from a single piece of wire bent to form.

Jaw 5 is attached to the lower ends of two arms, 13, 14, said arms being each formed 1 with an eye 15 which encircle the cross bar 11, the arms extending slightly beyond the bar 11 and bein connected by a cross baror element 16. aid arms 13 and ld and the cross bar 16 may be termed the lever frame, as, when the clamping jaws are separated apart, placing the coil springs 9 under greater stress or tension than normally obtams. When the parts are in the position shown in' Fig. 3 thelsprings hold the jaws together in clamping relation and any garment placed therebetween will be securely held. When brought to the open position the cross bar 16 of the lever framle swinging about bar 11 of the fulcrum frame will bear against the upper portion. of arms 7 and 8 and swinging from the position shown in Fig. 3 to that in Fig. 2 will force the arms outwardly away from the fulcrum frame. When the .parts come to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, arm 16 contacts the locking shoulder 12, whereby further opening movement is preventedand the parts will be held in such open position by reason of the fact that arm 16 passes below the dead center andthe sprin action are produced from wire, which may be readily bent to the desired contour.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,

1. In a clothes hanger, the combination of a supporting element; a clamping jaw; a combined supporting and fulcrum frame, said frame being formed from a single piece of wire bent to form and comprising a pair of arms, secured at their lower ends to the jaw; a pair of springs encircling said supportlng element, a second pair of arms extending downwardly from the springs, and

a connecting fulcrum bar a second clamping jaw; and a lever frame connected at its lower end to the jaw, said frame being fulcrumed on the fulcrum bar and bearing against the upper portion of the first-named arms of the supporting frame.

2. In a clothes hanger, the combination of a supporting element; a clamping jaw; a combined supporting and fulcrum frame, said frame being formed from a single piece of wire bent to form and comprising a pair of arms, secured at their lower ends to the jaw, said arms each being provided with a locking shoulder intermediate their upper and lower ends, a pair of springs encircling said supporting element, a second pair of arms extending downwardly from the springs, and a connecting fulcrum bar; a second clamping jaw; and a lever frame connected at its lower end to the jaw, said frame being fulcrumed on the fulcrum bar and bearing against the upper portion of the first named arms of the supporting frame.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification.

CHARLES FASEL. WILLIAM W. GARLAND. 

